Yet once upon a time, that big deficit turned around, and it took a mere five years.

Not healthy, especially coming after a bigger than expected £30bn deficit in the current tax year.

"Focus on what we did in coming back from a big deficit."

Democrats, thinking that a bigger deficit will make the President look bad, said yes.

That would mean an even bigger deficit and more pain for the next generation.

Berlin had been running big deficits ever since the wall came down.

It goes without saying that this is the biggest such deficit in world history.

No one asked them whether they wanted to run up the biggest deficit in the world.

Their biggest deficit in the race has been five games.

The result was the biggest deficit since $11 billion in July.